As a teenager, Tineke Maoate’s daughter Teagan begged her mum for a hysterectomy. Coping with a genetic blood disorder, she desperately wanted to live without the excessive bleeding during her period and was willing to never have a child of her own to be freed from the ordeal.
Tineke, 47, knew only too well what she was going through, as she also suffers from multiple bleeding conditions which cause extreme blood loss each month,
